All Blog Posts Tagged 'Christopher' (7)

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”― Christopher Hitchens

I started to read Larry Taunton's book, "The Faith of Christopher Hitchens" and he begins the book by painting a picture based on "Hitch 22", Christopher Hitchens' autobiography. Having read "Hitch 22" when it first came out I was struck how the impressions that Taunton was getting and the seemed importance he was assigning to them were not jibbing with my recollections so…

I've transcribed this segment from Fox News after the death of Jerry Falwell for your reading enjoyment. It has become a Hitchens youtube classic, with over a million views. It is obvious why this is the case: Hitchens is at his best here, and his concluding jab at Falwell is perhaps the greatest thing that has ever been said on the mainstream media. Without further ado:

Let me begin by saying these fools speak as if they have some sort of special knowledge. The only thing they possess is being alive after Christopher Hitchens died. I find their bold faced arrogance immoral and distasteful.

While it it's not as big issue using some of the moral teachings of the
Bible to guide your life, it is nothing but a delusion to believe the
stories of the Old and New Testament are based upon reality and science.
I may not be able to convince the devout followers to abandon their
faith in the fairy stories of the ancients and become and atheist as I
am but I may be able to convince some moderate followers to see the
wonders of nature and live their life for what… Continue

When addressing some of the issues of the fundamentalist view of evolution
it is important to identify some key words that they use to try to
vilify reasonable scientists and educated people that understand the
concepts of evolution and natural selection. From the way the word
is used by the intelligent design side it seems that the word
“Darwinism” is meant to describe the “believers” in the
Theory of Evolution to make it seem more like a radical belief… Continue

As religion and its sycophants continue to crumble under the weight of science and reason, its exponents have dialed up the polemics and the deceit.

Jacqueline Maley's editorial, "Atheism's true believers gather"[1], published in The Sydney Morning Herald is one of the most disingenuous, inaccurate portrayals of atheists—replete with some of the most outlandish faulty logic… Continue